A brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching story about family and forgiveness, love and loss that crosse generations and continents. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the US and open a motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Growing up as outcasts in their small desert town, Salahudin and Noor understand each other better than anyone.
Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah's health faits and his father isn't coping. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope : working at her wrathful uncle's store, while keeping her college applications secret so she can escape him forever. When Sal's attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth - and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.
A brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching story about family and forgiveness, love and loss that crosse generations and continents. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the US and open a motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Growing up as outcasts in their small desert town, Salahudin and Noor understand each other better than anyone.
Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah's health faits and his father isn't coping. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope : working at her wrathful uncle's store, while keeping her college applications secret so she can escape him forever. When Sal's attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth - and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.